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From: chris@mddc.UUCP (Chris Maloney)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: panic: munhash (4.2BSD crash) (A fix)
Message-ID: <293@mddc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Dec-83 15:16:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 21 15:16:47 1983
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I belive that the correction mention previously by RWS@mit-xx
will fix this problem (It did for use anyway).

Chris Maloney
7209 Dixie Highway
Fairfield, Ohio   45014
Management Decisions Development Corp.
(513)874-6464

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From qusavx!cbosgd!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!RWS@mit-xx Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
Path: mddc!qusavx!cbosgd!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!RWS@mit-xx
From: RWS%mit-xx@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: sundry 4.2 bugs
Message-ID: <13280@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 17:15:00 EST
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.13280
Posted: Wed Nov  2 17:15:00 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Nov-83 09:05:00 EST
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Status: RO

Despite claims to the contrary, the block number sign extension problem still
exists.  Berkeley put in a fix that should have worked, but a C compiler bug
apparently keeps it from working.  In /sys/sys/vm_mem.c in memall() the code
      swapdev : mount[c->c_mdev].m_dev, (daddr_t)(u_long)c->c_blkno
should be changed to
      swapdev : mount[c->c_mdev].m_dev, c->c_blkno
and in /sys/vax/vm_machdep.c in chgprot() the code
          munhash(mount[c->c_mdev].m_dev, (daddr_t)(u_long)c->c_blkno);
should be changed to
          munhash(mount[c->c_mdev].m_dev, c->c_blkno);
because the C compiler apparently incorrectly folds the (daddr_t) and (u_long)
together and sign extends anyway.  Simply taking out the (daddr_t)(u_long)
works, although lint will probably complain about it.

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